Example sentences of "and [noun] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave the baronage a strong sense of cohesion ; but the large families which many of them had , and the opportunities for enrichment and impoverishment which growing population and growing wealth provided , meant that any great man had a large number of poor relations , and that the rungs on the ladder between the poor knights and the great princes were thronged with men moving up and down , sometimes at breakneck speed . |
| 2 | The last three wickets went down quickly after lunch , Mallender bagging his fifth of the innings to complete a distinguished debut , and Pringle his third . |
| 3 | In dealing with the ulema of the earlier period , then , one must first take care not to allow to influence one 's thinking unduly the relatively rigid structure of the hierarchy of the later period and the values and attitudes which this helped to foster . |
| 4 | The Cotswolds villages with their honey-coloured buildings are worth exploring , and the towns of Worcester , Hereford , Gloucester and Lichfield whose magnificent medieval cathedrals dominate the skyline . |
| 5 | It was characteristic that he stuck into his scrapbook not only the programme of that performance and the rave review from Dance News , but also such memorabilia as publicity photographs and sketches about the clothes and accessories which all the women in the company were given as ambassadors of British fashion , and , significantly , the handsome illustrated brochure of Balanchine 's School of American Ballet . |
| 6 | On March 26 , schools and colleges reopened in Tirgu Mures , including the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy whose ethnic Hungarian students had been on strike for three weeks , and tension in the city and surrounding region was reported to have eased . |
| 7 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 8 | ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’ |
| 9 | We do n't really need either of them but I must say that , despite the professionalism and expertise they both possess , judging from the contents rather than the covers we need Pocket less than we need Orion . |
| 10 | Whatever defence is mounted , it is clear that these films , for Levin , exist as auratic objects , and Debord their auraticised progenitor . |
| 11 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 12 | Whether the primary motive for the association was the wish to appear to be in partnership or to avoid being identified as sole practitioners was not clear , but the Tribunal drew attention to the fact that " such a sham partnership would serve to mislead the public who are entitled to believe that the persons being held out as being partners would enjoy the full relationship of support and responsibility which that state engendered " . |
| 13 | This means jobs for 23,400 typists and supervisers whose varying rates of productivity come under fire . |
| 14 | work out the qualifications and experience which that person should have ; |
| 15 | This follows from the goodwill and experience which existing national firms possess . |
| 16 | It seems cruel that what is encouraged and praised in girls as children ( and is also , after all , an expression of identity and creativity which little boys too could benefit from ) is suddenly , at age eleven seen as vanity , and a sign of low intellect . |
| 17 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 18 | Such common risks to the interests and values they all share still give the allies plenty to fret about collectively . |
| 19 | In education two new city technology colleges were announced and attempts were to be made to extend the system of ‘ compacts ’ between business , schools and colleges.under which all pupils/students are guaranteed jobs with local firms when they leave school . |
| 20 | A more common relationship is that between adult education and MSC whose declared commitment to training of various kinds and social education in preparation for responsible citizenship is well known . |
| 21 | As schools shifted generally from a dependence on informal contacts to role specialization , delegation , and a greater investment in formal procedures , so they were forced to acquire the vocabulary and skills which formal decision-making dictates . |
| 22 | The local party leader in Shanghai , Jiang Zemin , attempted to deter the first demonstration by personally addressing thousands of students at the Jiaotong campus on 19 December , Jiang was a technocrat and moderniser whose future success in the party seemed certain . |
| 23 | ‘ I found them outside his door when I took master and mistress their early morning tea . ’ |
| 24 | In one central passage the Apostle Paul brings together the essence of this teaching from both Testaments , and with some clearly articulated principles lays down teaching which has many straightforward and practical applications for the frustrations and conflicts which many families experience today . |
| 25 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
| 26 | Margaret Forster is a novelist , biographer and critic whose new biography of Daphne du Maurier , an investigation into the mysterious and passionate personality of one of the century 's best-loved authors , is already generating lavish praise and attention . |
| 27 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 28 | After hibernating through the winter months , a male sand lizard wakes up and sheds his old brown skin for a new green one which the duller female finds attractive . |
| 29 | It was the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon which first drove the colonials to independent action ; war exposed the impotence of Spain as an imperial power and revealed her incapacity to supply her colonies with merchandise . |
| 30 | Lancashire gave him one of his most memorable finds ( an Old Trafford cupboard crammed with old minute books ) and Surrey his next subject ( George Lohmann ) : ‘ He was a rebel , but also a tragic figure . |